>>OK, I'm sure it is. It just seems to me that if they are showing you how to use pointers in C# they are either showing off or haven't completely made the paradigm shift from C/C++ to C#. You can usually make things work the way they used to if you're determined enough.
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>Check the book and that particular chapter before jumping to conclusions.


What conclusions? Its the same as someone moving to .net and still using fox's hungarian notation or the toolkit so you can use foxpro command words and write in a style that no other .net programmer would understand. I restate again, if you need unsafe code or pointers in c#, then you haven't thought out your design well enough or you have chosen the wrong language to implement it. I've been using c# since late 2002 and have never had to write pointer notation in c#. Just because its in a book somewhere, doesn't make it right or reasonable.